Anne-Maree Farrell

Anne-Maree Farrell is Professor and Chair of Health Law and Society, ARC Future Fellow, and Director of the Centre for Health Law and Society, La Trobe University, Victoria. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked as a lawyer in private legal practice, specialising in mass torts, product liability and medical negligence. Her research expertise is in health law, policy and ethics. She has specific interests in law and the human body (blood, organ, cells), health technologies, the management of...See more

Anne-Maree Farrell is Professor and Chair of Health Law and Society, ARC Future Fellow, and Director of the Centre for Health Law and Society, La Trobe University, Victoria. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked as a lawyer in private legal practice, specialising in mass torts, product liability and medical negligence. Her research expertise is in health law, policy and ethics. She has specific interests in law and the human body (blood, organ, cells), health technologies, the management of public health risks, and medical injury. Her books include Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier (co-edited with C. Stanton, S. Devaney and A. Mullock, 2016), European Law and New Health Technologies (co-edited with M. Flear, T. Hervey and M. Murphy, 2013), The Politics of Blood: Ethics Innovation and the Regulation of Risk (Cambridge, 2012), and Organ Shortage: Ethics Law and Pragmatism (co-edited with M. Flear, T. Hervey and M. Murphy, Cambridge, 2011). She has received funding for her research from the Australian Research Council, the UK Wellcome Trust, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and the Nuffield Foundation. She is currently undertaking an ARC Future Fellowship which examines law, regulation and politics involving the human body. See less